In Search of God's Promises

What is the one thing we do when we feel out of control in a situation? We grasp onto something stable, something we can lean on, something that will hold us up. When the ground is shifting we want something solid to stand on. This is a journey through the Bible in search of God's promises for us today. Let's look together to see how many "boulders" He has in His quarry for us to stand on! "It is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants." Rom. 9:8

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Promise 34 from Numbers 27:6-7

Numbers 27:6-7 - "Then the Lord spoke to Moses saying, 'The daughters of Zelophehad are right in their statements. You shall surely give them a hereditary possession among their father's brothers, and you shall transfer the inheritance of their father to them.'"

This passage speaks more to the character of God rather than a promise, but if you look close enough, you might catch a promise in there as well. Zelophehad's daughters approached Moses with a request that is opposite the laws of inheritance. In a very male dominated culture, all inheritance goes to a male in the family. Where it comes to families with no direct male heir the inheritance goes to a distant male in the same bloodline. Those girls stepped up and said, "This simply isn't fair, it's not our fault that we have no brother. We should be made the heirs of our father's inheritance." Even though God is the one who gave instructions on the laws and put them into place, He heard their request and said to Moses, "You know, they're right!" God is not so unpenetrable that He can not be approached with our desires. God is not all that interested in the law as much as He is interested in relationship. If the law was more important to God than relationship then the 10 commandments would have been enough and Jesus wouldn't have had to come to earth to show us the Father. But God is very interested in what is on the hearts of His people. So look what God, the loving Heavenly Father says, "You shall transfer the inheritance of their father to them!" Did you catch it? The inheritance of the Father will be transferred to not only the sons but to the daughters as well! All that the Father has is ours with His full blessings. When Jesus died on the cross, He passed on His inheritance to us. All that was in Him, He gave to us. It would be senseless that this means we receive the inheritance after we die and are in heaven. He gave it and we received at the time we were adopted into His family. This is why He says in Jn. 14 "With the authority I've given to you, you can do what I do and even more because I go to the Father." Because Jesus rose again and is still alive, the inheritance continues to grow beyond what He revealed to us in scripture and He continues to pass onto us that which is from the Kingdom. There is always MORE that He wants to fill us with. It's a limitless inheritance. So.... He not only hears us, He cares about what we care about and He pours out His unlimited inheritance into our lives. He is such a great Daddy!

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